in cleveland today, here in columbus yesterday. it also explains why president obama was here in one of his last stops on his last campaign in columbus last night. vice president biden here today as well. we are awaiting momentarily a briefing by the ohio secretary of state as the polls are about to close. we will be bringing that to you if there's anything notable there. has this gotten voters' attention, you bet it has. take a look at the scenes a short time ago outside this building, the ohio union, where as many as 500 students were lined up to vote as the polls were closing. and these lines have been going out the door all day long. steady turnouts. now, what we expect when the results come out is they will tally the absentee ballots first. a record 1.8 million of them and pretty much everyone across the board expects those will break for the democrats. it will be a little bit deceiving. then it comes to a game of turnout on election day and republican senator rob portman, a romney ally, feels good about that. >> everyone sayi